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Nature Conservancy Instagram Contest and Other Examples

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of my blog readers, Sarah Mowry, Outreach Director for the Deschutes Land Trust pointed me to Nature Conservancy’s Instagram contest , an image scavenger hunt. This is a high level engagement task, to take a photo and tag it on Instagram. There is also other value: How much time or expense did this save staff?

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How Nonprofits Can Use Instagram for Fundraising

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On its Instagram page, the nonprofit mostly publishes testimonials and photos from people who have received support. The Nature Conservancy’s page is big on professional nature photography. You should also create a mixture of photo and video content. Other orgs take different approaches. Work With Influencers.

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How To Use Facebook Timeline Covers To Spread Your Organization’s Brand

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While the timeline has the potential to embarrass some users who might have inappropriate photos buried along their timeline, the cover image is a great opportunity for nonprofits to engage their champions to help spread the word about the organization. The Ocean Conservancy has done just that!

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4 Tips for Marketing Your Animal-Related Nonprofit

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It also requires strategic planning, effective communication, and innovative marketing techniques to reach your target audience and inspire them to take action. Share photos and videos of the animals in your care and use relevant hashtags to expand your reach. Tell the story of those impacted by your organization.

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

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I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Guest Post by Debra Askanase: Fill the Gap Campaign Crowdsourcing for Citizen Museum Curators

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Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? When there is a need to fill a gap, the Luce Center posts a photo on its Flickr site. Absolutely brilliant!

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Nonprofit and Flickr Resource List: Not listed, Add in the Comments

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is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. t simply about putting your photos up on the web for the world to see. What if you and your colleagues could annotiate these photos with your own descrptions and observations? Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest.

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